I hope the first, and best without question, of the Extreme-G games makes it on Rev's download service, as I liked that game quite a bit. Still, I can't imagine someone making a profit off of these through the Rev service, assuming the prices are close to the one for Mr. Domino, as how many downloads would it take to have to cover the initial cost of buying the publishing rights?

$7,500 seems really cheap for all those Simpsons titles...

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I hope the first, and best without question, of the Extreme-G games makes it on Rev's download service, as I liked that game quite a bit. Still, I can't imagine someone making a profit off of these through the Rev service, assuming the prices are close to the one for Mr. Domino, as how many downloads would it take to have to cover the initial cost of buying the publishing rights?

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Surprisingly, I wouldn't pay $50 even to get the licencing rights to more than 50% of these games, let alone to buy them. Very sad. No wonder Acclaim is dead.

Oh man, if I had $5,100, I would snap up the rights to Trog like THAT.

Oh, and Kwirk, as well. That game was awesome.

Haha, Trog was awesome. Especially when there were random still screen angry faces or something in-between random levels.

Oh shi-Iggy's Wreckin' Balls.

No Shadowman? That game was easily worth the Euro I paid!

Smash TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

hopefully noone buys forsaken
I was tricked into hiring it by 8-9/10 reviews in n64 mags, talk about over hyped poo

So if these are the publishing rights, what happened to the licenses? I'd love to see a new extreme-g, provided the license went to a good home.

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Someone is getting away with murder on the Double Dragon Series too. Seriously if I had money to burn I'd snap up a few of these properties just so I could lease them out for compilations and online services.

I contacted the agency that is holding the auction, heres what i found out. Each game has different rights, and they are only auctioning the righst accliam had. It would only be worth buying the rights to these games either for Rev Download service, or [possibly even Xbox Live Arcade, but most games dont have sequel rights. Also there is a minimum bid of 5,000 dollars per game, so it could be costly to get more than a couple games.

They still havent told me when the deadline is but if theres time me and some friends are looking into buying the NBA Jam rights, so we can offer those to Nintendo for Rev at a really cheap price and make sure it gets exclusive. Well we would do other thinsg with the righst but it depends soley on how much time they give us to get the money and when the auction ends. Also there is some question as to what exactly the righst accliam holds to the series but considering Midway no longer holds the copyriughts to NBA Jam and all the recent sequels have been Acclaim I think its safe to assume they have pretty extensive control over the property. This sort of explains why NBA Jam wasn't included on any of teh Midways Arcade Treasures titles which always had me confused.

I just hope that if we win the bid that its more than just the righst to the SNES/Genesis versions of those games. I would love to do an NBA Jam Arcade Edition or something like that, with updated features and interviews with teh creators. Also Besides the ability to offer these games for DL theres always compilation disks and those ever increasing TV Plug N Play games. Anyways Ill post more info as soon as I get it.

what if pgc created some vast pyapal account to buy the rights to a game

I got more info about these games, according to the lawyers each game has different rights and some games are limited to the original consoles they were first published on, for instance Acclaim had righst to Mortal Kombat and MK II BUT only had the rights to publish them for consoles from 1992 to 1995 after that Midway revoked thier liscense and gave it to Sculptured and then Williams sold the rights to Midway once it became a seperate entity.

So far I have been unable to get info on NBA Jam but what my friendes and I were discussion was getting MK and NBA Jam and doing a two pack or something but as far as we can tell it only relates to the code Acclaim had access to and not the full arcade code, which Midway still owns, so as far as Rev or Xbox Arcade goes it could still work, but to publish the games as say GBA or Game Cube ports only Midway can do that. At least on MK NBA Jam may have been sold out right I dont know but I will keep checking.

Anyways it looks like some of these games will be lost forever as theres many that have no bids, I sure wish Nintendo would start making bids on some of these old classics because thatw ay not only would they go to Rev DL service but would be exclusive to it.

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Anyways it looks like some of these games will be lost forever as theres many that have no bids, I sure wish Nintendo would start making bids on some of these old classics because thatw ay not only would they go to Rev DL service but would be exclusive to it.

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I sent them an email they havent replied yet but they usulay do within a couple days. I have good relations with a couple reps so I usualy get reliable info. I will post what they say when they reply.

Ok I got my response from Nintendo today, they just basicaly said they were thankful for my pointing that to thier attention, and they would forward the info to the "appropriate" people. Then they sent a second email saying that they were looking further into the matter and to check thier news page for updates as they become available, not a confirmation but hopefull news anyways.

In the Nintendo HQ:
"Hey, Turok! That's been a big seller on the N64, let's make it our new mature franchise the kids have been whining for!"

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In the Nintendo HQ:
"Hey, Turok! That's been a big seller on the N64, let's make it our new mature franchise the kids have been whining for!"

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errrr... I don't think Valiant even exists anymore (although I could be wrong...)

I think Acclaim bought up the company who had the rights to Turok but T was sold off long before this auction here began.

By the way, is that a G3 he's holding on that cover?

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I got more info about these games, according to the lawyers each game has different rights and some games are limited to the original consoles they were first published on, for instance Acclaim had righst to Mortal Kombat and MK II BUT only had the rights to publish them for consoles from 1992 to 1995 after that Midway revoked thier liscense and gave it to Sculptured and then Williams sold the rights to Midway once it became a seperate entity.

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damnint somebody beat me to it I was gonna get those MK rights!


Anyways I hope that whoever bought them actauly does something with it. I have been WAITING for somebody to make a PERFECT MK1 arcade port forever!

i wonder who ended up with hte rights of ironsword(ww1,ww3)...cus i want them

Thats funny that you mention Turok is a comic character from ages ago, but only show the most recent version of it. The character was originally from the 50's , from Dell Comics. He was originally called Turok Son of Stone.

Anyway, Valiant Comics became Acclaim Comics at some point. Acclaim was going to do the whole line as games. Not the best idea in the world of gaming. In the beginning Valiant had some of the hottest books in the comic industry. Then everyone jumped on the bandwagon and demand dropped like a stone. Then the bottom fell out of the comic industry as a whole (thank you Image ).

But I absolutely love the first three Turoks and would like to see a return to the good ole days. Evolution just blew chunks. If the load times and frame rate issues would have been cleaned up I would be more favorable of it.